Orange to Accelerate Development of Mobile Web Applications and Streamline Customer Billing

Barcelona, Spain (PRNewswire) Today at Mobile World Congress 2012, Orange is announcing that it is working with Facebook and other industry leaders on initiatives to create new and compelling mobile web applications and experiences for our customers. W3C Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group.
Orange is announcing that it is joining the newly created W3C Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group. The Community Group’s goal is to accelerate the adoption of the Mobile Web as a compelling platform for the development of modern mobile web applications.The Community Group will bring developers, equipment manufacturers, browser vendors, operators and other relevant members of the industry together to agree on core features developers can depend on, create related conformance test suites and provide to W3C (and non-W3C) groups use cases, scenarios, and other input related to enabling successful mobile web app development.
Orange is also announcing that it is working closely with Facebook to implement a seamless billing option for our costumers, and that we are committed to making mobile payments as easy as possible for web applications.
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